33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye shall dwell: for [a]blood defileth the land: and the land cannot be [b]cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, for I dwell in the midst thereof: For I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 35:33 Or, murder.
  2. Numbers 35:33 So God is mindful of the blood wrongfully shed, that he maketh his dumb creatures to demand vengeance thereof.

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